Sentence examples for directive negotiation from inspiring English sources

Brussels has been host to a small army of lobbyists during the data protection directive negotiation process, with the U.S. government and tech giants such Facebook and Google actively seeking to water down proposals.

"We now urge the council, the commission and the parliament to strongly defend the directive in ongoing negotiations".

As the Presidency of the Council just said, the Commission has recommended to the Council that it authorise the Presidency, assisted by the Commission, to open negotiations on the basis of a set of negotiation directives.

Further reforms would be needed to strengthen the current legislation in terms of harmonizing all land laws, as well as outlining explicit directives for land negotiations, compensation (including defining the rightful recipients of compensation) and the effective evaluation of large-scale land acquisitions.

HSE also advises the British Government on health and safety policy matters such as the need to introduce or revise legislation and the negotiation of European Directives.

The Commission will take its work forward in light of progress made in relation to the revision of the e-Privacy directive and taking into account the negotiations on the data protection framework," she added. .

The current directive took about 14 years of tortuous negotiation before it came into force in 2005.

But the UK has been accused of bad behaviour over the directive before, having played hard ball in negotiations to get an exemption from its binding annual 1.5% energy saving obligation.

"Through some hard negotiation we very much improved the directive.

"This issue is still being considered as part of the new European tobacco products directive that is in the final stages of negotiation.

France and Germany would dearly love to downgrade the City's position and there are negotiations on directives at the moment which could have an impact on it.